NO GAYS IN THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

NO GAYS IN THE BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA

I Tend To Agree... But Its Meaningless

 ^{"for everyone born of God overcomes the world."}

1 John 5:4

The Boy Scouts of America are at it again! Sticking to their rejection of gay leaders and members, and claiming it is about character.  Of course the powerless, misunderstood, and much maligned (and if you believe that I've got a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn to sell you,) LGBT community have been crying foul...AGAIN.   Do you know that even as a gay man I could not stand those gay people who wanted to ram their agenda down everybody's throats.   I HATED the jerks!  I lived as a gay man, but also defiant of the LGBT agenda and those who pushed it off on everyone.  Wasn't I aware of how bad gay people had it??  Yeah, I knew many gay people who had it bad, mostly from close family and friends.  I'm not saying some of us didn't suffer at the hands of some stupid bigot or religious jerks, but hey, you need to know who hates you so you can avoid them.

I have never had a problem with The Boy Scouts of America.  When I finally acknowledged I was a gay man didn't I understand I wouldn't be welcomed by groups like the Scouts?  Didn't I understand how hateful and unfair the BSA were being to me???  I didn't care, because I didn't have to hang out with Boy Scouts.  I didn't have to hang out with religious people, I didn't have to hang out with the KKK, and I sure didn't have to, or even want to hang out with groups like GLAAD, or PFLAG!  If LGBT people have the right to live as they like then so do the Boy Scouts of America.  Everyone trying to pressure the BSA to accept gay members and leaders aren't planning to toe the line of the official rules and regulation of the Scouts.  The whole idea is to force the BSA to change and get in line with LGBT think.   I don't have to like any special interest group.  Whether they be religious, atheist, LGBT, racist, so on and so forth.  This is America, last time I checked, and The Boy Scouts of America have the right to choose with whom they associate.  Though there is a lot of, "sound and fury signifying nothing," there still isn't a shred of factual evidence proving humans are hardwired with any flavor of sexuality.  

Sex, like language, is not dictated by biology.   Biology dictates, only, that language may develop, but does not dictate that a person speak Swahili, Yiddish, or Tamil.  Biology cannot take into account the direction a life will go, and something as complex and varied as language or sexuality is far too complex for biology to dictate.   Biology gave Michael Phelps the right kind of long torso, prized in champion swimmers, but biology didn't make Michael Phelps a champion.  (I also have the long torso prized in champion swimmers, but I've always been a champion sinker!).   As much as gay activists want to claim "I'm born this way," the facts should not be forced to bow to "wishful" thinking.  I'd like to have been a championship swimmer, got the body and everything for it, but I wasn't willing to endure the training, and there were other things I liked doing a lot more.   I never liked how the gay community bullied everyone who got in their way, and worse still, they've bullied anyone who simply dared to disagree with them.  And just for the record I don't like religious creeps like Dr. Dobson, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson.   Spare me the Retardation Day Parades lead by self-appointed kings and queens (religious or gay, they're all the same to me) prancing about naked, so we peons can appreciate the non-existent splendor and superiority of their royal garments.   The emperor is still nekked no matter how many ways the "Brown Nose" media attempt to spin it.   I do hope the Boy Scouts of America stand their ground, and continue to kindly, but gently say, "no".
   
Of course it doesn't matter what the Boy Scouts of America decide to do now or in the future about gay members and leaders.  The Boy Scouts of America don't have a solution for what they believe to be a matter of character.  All the Boy Scouts of America can do is say, "no."  Nature, including human nature, abhors a vacuum.  And if there is no answer; solution; way forward out of homosexuality, (or any other form of sexual brokenness, for that matter), then the only way is backward.  The Boy Scouts of America will lose ground, until they have none left to stand on, and you can take that to the bank.  If you can't overcome the problem then the problem will overcome you.  History is full of terrible stories about base human vice leading to the destruction of great and accomplished cultures.   It will never be enough to pass laws and make moral speeches.  God sent his righteous and holy laws to human kind, but human kind could not keep God's good and holy laws.  The most powerful religious men became petty, cruel, hypocritical, and worthless.  God's law failed, not because it was not good, right, and holy, but for the reason that human kind is not good, cannot be righteous, and fall very short of holiness.   The God, who first sent the world laws they could not keep, finally sent a single man who could keep all the Laws of God.   Only one man in all the history of the world kept all of God's holy and righteous laws.  AND then he laid his life down in sacrifice on a Roman cross.   One man could keep all the law, and that same ONE man could take all the punishment and all the enslaving power of sin, for all of us law breaking humans.  After just 3 days that one man shook the bonds of death and the grave off, as easy as I can dust off my shoe.   That Son of Man who overpowered sin, death, and eternal damnation to the grave, now became the giver of eternal life.   That one Son of Man can now live in and through, any and every human to overcome the world in and through them.  This is the ONLY solution God offers the world.  For each and everyone of us, either Jesus will overcome the world, or we, relying on human laws and powerless morality will be crushed by the world.   How can the Boy Scouts of America do anything but fail?   Did Jesus create the Boy Scouts of America?  No, he did not.  The Son of Man created his Church, and through that Church he will overcome the world.  But if American religious people will not repent, and turn from the world's ways (politics, laws, nation worship, violence, moralizing, and etc.) then they will fall as well.   God knew that only Jesus could overcome the world, and he is the only answer; cure; way forward out of every human brokenness and vice.  Laws and "standing" up against sin only ever leads to pettiness, cruelty, hypocrisy, and worthlessness.  Since no one, including Christians will obey and pursue the ways of God, excluding the "ways of men", then there is no way forward.  The only way left is backwards until there is no ground left for standing.  God has only one way:
 

OVERCOME OR BE OVERCOME.

Boy Scouts of America: It was nice knowing you.  American Christians:  It was nice to know you too.  It's just too bad you wouldn't pursue ONLY God's ways and reject the ways of human kind, which only ever leads to destruction.   It's been in the Bible for about 3,000 years, so there is no excuse:

"The way that seems right to human kind, in the end, is always the GPS leading the way to death's kingdom."

Proverbs 14:12

 

 

UTTERly...

It's For More Than Milking Cows

 

 

ut·ter [uht-er]

adjective

 1. complete; total; absolute: her utter abandonment to grief.

2. unconditional; unqualified: an utter denial

 Thank You Dictionary.com

"Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."

Hebrews 7:25

This isn't about cows, eating cows, or drinking cow's milk.  While I have mostly gone vegetarian, I'm certainly not against people eating cow or wearing leather.  I still wear leather, and have no intention of stopping.  I have chosen not to eat red meat, strictly, for health reasons.  No Christ follower should be going around telling people they are sinning if they eat cow, chicken, fish, shrimp, clams, pork, and etc.   Want a thick juicy steak??  Have at it!  None for me thanks, but I'm all for you eating cow til...well, "til the cows come home"...  And, just so you know, no cows were harmed, no milk was spilled, in the writing of this post.  Always gotta have a disclaimer because of all the tree huggin, anti-meat eating, nutball, activists who want to push everyone else around.  Funny, I'm bad because I believe the Bible, but nutball, anti-meat eating activists are "good" because they're trying to "save" cows.  I want to save the humans, by drawing people to Christ, so that they may be conformed to the UTTERly perfect image of Christ.  The nutballs, who want to force everyone to conform to their way of thinking/living, are the good people...

But I digress...

This is about the word "utter", and when I first think of utter I think about milking cows.  The utter I'm talking about is used as an adjective in Hebrews 7:25, meaning: "complete;" "total;" "absolute" and "unconditional;" "unqualified".   What Hebrews 7:25 is saying is, "Jesus is able to save, "completely;" "totally;" "absolutely;" "100%."   Now if Jesus saves "completely; totally; absolutely; 100% then what is left for a Christ follower to do???   A Christ follower does 0% of the work of salvation.  God does it all.  The only thing a Christ follower does is receive a completely new spirit.   A true Christ follower is "born again," which means God himself has made that person a new creation.  This isn't the new birth which comes from the sexual union of a man and a woman.  When God makes us "born again" he literally takes a portion or "seed" of Jesus Christ and places that in us.  We become, "partakers of the divine nature".  God makes us "kind after Jesus' kind,"  and this new creation is 100% the work of God.  No mere human can make another human, or even him/herself a new creation.   There is this misunderstanding in much of the body of Christ today that what makes a person a believer is the believer's choice.  No believer or unbeliever can make a "choice" to be born again.  Only God can make a person truly born again so no human decisions or actions has anything to do with making a person born again.  God enables us to make a choice to receive, but receiving is all we mere humans can ever do.  So salvation is God's work from first to last; beginning to end; completely; no loose ends to tie up; absolutely 100%; UTTERly God.

  

SIDE NOTE: You know, you Calvinists out there need to stop believing lies about those of us who hold to an Arminian view.  Stop reading what Calvinists say about what Wesley and Ariminius believed.  Go to Wesley if you want to know what Wesley truly believed.

  

There is no work an imperfect, sinful person can do to make themselves sinless and perfect, as Christ is perfect.  Perfection comes from the perfect.  Imperfection cannot be any more than what it always has been and will always be:  IMPERFECT.   Only God is perfect, and only God can make perfect, so don't waste your time thinking God expects you to perfect yourself.  That's what many religious people do:  They try to make themselves perfect.  They think that God, when he saves them, gives them a box of "Holy Spirit" Tide detergent, and some "Holy Spirit" Shout stain remover.  These poor hapless and deluded souls think if they just put enough "Holy Spirit" cleaner on their sinful imperfection they can clean it off.   God doesn't want to clean us off.  God wants us to "put off our former self..."  and "put on the new self created to be (UTTERly!) like Christ(read Ephesians 4)  JUST STOP TRYING TO CLEAN YOURSELF UP, AND GIVE UP!!!!!  ACCEPT AND BELIEVE IN GOD'S PERFECT WORK IN CHRIST ONLY!!!!!

  

Simply receive the new creation of God, walk with God believing he and ONLY he is your perfection and that he will perfect you UTTERly, because Jesus is perfect.  Jesus Christ's saving work on the cross and his new resurrection life are all there is to the work of God's salvation.  When we see Jesus face to face that work will be completed, but God calls the work completed, as if it already were, because Jesus CANNOT FAIL!!! (Romans 8).  Jesus, AND ONLY JESUS, saves, and Jesus saves: COMPLETEly; ABSOLUTEly; 100%ly; PERFECTly; NEVER FAILINGly; UTTERly!

Dear saints in Christ:

  "Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."

The only thing perfect I've ever been able to achieve is being a "perfect" butthole.  There are a lot of people who can see Christians being "perfect" buttholes, because that is what Christians are when they are trying to make themselves perfect.  Jesus said, "Do what I teach, and this will make you my true disciple..." John 8:31.   Jesus NEVER said, "Do the best you can to fix yourself and make yourself perfect..."   Perfection is God.  Unless you're God then you are UTTERly sinful, UTTERly broken, and UTTERly beyond help.  Receive Christ, and 100% of the work is completed to the UTTERMOST; absolutely; totally; perfectly, as ONLY Christ can do it. 

Bless You...